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Kingsport Times

Location

Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America

Date

Jun 06, 1972

Page

2

Bristol Growth Approved for 6.8 Sq Miles Annexation

Bristol Tennessee Supreme Court upholds 6.8 square mile annexation extending southeast to Windy Hills Avoca area including Blackley Road and Weaver Pike Industrial Park. Plan adds Avoca Elementary School Avoca Volunteers Fire Department and shopping centers, expanding city services and tax status details.

Bristol Kingsport Johnson City Bristol Board of Commissioners Chattin Avoca Volunteer Fire Department

Surgoinsville to Buy Fire Truck

Surgoinsville aldermen approve purchase of a water carrier tank truck for about 4000 from a Virginia fire department. They will pay from city funds and keep the town out of debt after final payments on the garbage and fire trucks noted in May.

Surgoinsville Virginia

Education Hearing Set For Gate City

The Virginia State Advisory Council on Vocational Education will hold its quarterly meeting and annual public hearing at the Scott County Vocational Center in Gate City at 10 a.m. on Friday. It marks the council's first meeting outside Richmond to align with local vocational needs and programs. Citizens may appear before the council on June 9, 1972, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Gate City Virginia State Advisory Council On Vocational Education Scott County Vocational Center Rufus Beamer Virginia State Advisory Council On State Advisory Council On Vocational Education

Missing Bugs Puzzle Tennessee Entomologists

Entomologists in East Tennessee face a snag as cicadas and 13-year locusts fail to emerge. The expected air invasion did not occur broadly from Nashville to Chattanooga, with only pockets of activity in Blount and Monroe counties.

Amlomongy East Tennessee East Tennessee Blount and Monroe Counties

Rabies vaccination clinics listed around towns

Scott County clinics schedule vaccination venues tomorrow at Red Hill Church Willams Mill Snowflake Gray s Store Frazier s Store Wampler s Store Meade s Store Nickelsville Bush s Mill Walter Meade s Store Cross Grocery and more The Presbyterian Women annual meeting at Bristol Appalachian Synod begins 1 30 pm with Ruby Brock speaking at King College and guests from Abingdon Asheville Holston and Knoxville Presbyteries Greeneville Tusculum College receives 150000 grant for program and faculty development

Scott County Red Hill Church Willams Mill Gray’s Frazier's Wampler's Meade's Sy. Hollow Rd Nickelsville Hilcott Shell Bush’s Mill Walter Meade’s Cross’ Grocery Bristol Presbyterian Women of the Church Appalachia King College Abingdon Asheville Holston Knoxville Ruby Brock Board of Women's Work Atlanta Georgia

Grundy Man Found Dead Near Log Cabin on Page Mountain

Buchanan County man Ed Blankenship was found partly decomposed in a stream near his windowless Page Mountain cabin. Police concluded natural causes after x rays showed no bones broken and no foul play. earlier fears of murder abated. Blankenship left monthly to buy groceries with his Social Security check. groceries were undisturbed on the locked porch.

Grundy Buchanan County Page Mountain Ed Blankenship Blankenship

Coeburn Seeks County Funds For Nursery And Landfill

Coeburn town council authorized town manager Mike Dean to seek county funding for a shrubbery and tree nursery and a contribution to the Coeburn landfill. He proposed an 11000 appropriation for the nursery including 4000 for seedlings 4100 for a caretaker and 2000 for a cultivator. Dean will also request additional funding beyond the initial grant.

Coeburn Mike Dean Dean

County Approves Nursery Funding and Landfill Move

The county allocates 25,000 annually to maintain a nursery serving the entire county. Dean says the county will reimburse their share of moving the Coeburn landfill behind Wire Mountain. The move follows the closure of two northern landfills and aims to handle increased waste. A new access road, planned for July 1973, could cost about 2,000 with no county-posed figure from Coeburn yet.

Dean Coeburn Wire Mountain

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